7 - 8a Applied psychologist

Job overview

The Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHFT) is delighted to be advertising various full-time and part-time Psychological Therapies opportunities for AFC qualified Band 7, 8a and 8b roles in Adult Secondary Care Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs). Please note, the roles will be required to work across any or all of our four vibrant localities depending on need; Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Dudley and Walsall.

Psychology is a vital and influential field, represented at every level in our Trust, including the roles of our Chief Therapies Officer, and also our Chief Clinical Information Officer who are both Consultant Clinical Psychologists.

In the CMHTS, we are a combination of Practitioner Psychologists, CBT Therapists and DBT Therapists offering a range of group and individual therapies in line with recovery models of care and trauma-informed practice.  We welcome applications from practitioner psychologists, and qualified therapists across a range of modalities such as CBT, DBT, EMDR and CAT. Applications from those with interest, further training or specialism in Psychosis and/or Personality Disorder are particularly welcomed.

Main duties of the job

There are opportunities to apply and develop your time limited psychological skills in CBT, DBT, EMDR, ACT, CFT and CAT. We treat clients with a range of complex mental health problems including CPTSD, personality disorders, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and moderate to severe presentations of depression and anxiety including OCD, health anxiety, social anxiety with comorbidities. There are ample opportunities to develop leadership skills, supervision skills and further clinical competencies in all these roles.

All the CMHTs have a strong multi-disciplinary ethos, with good links with staff from Tier 1 (Primary Care and Talking Therapies), our Recovery College and VCSE partners. Specialist services which include psychological therapists also support the CMHTs: Complex Emotional Needs; Eating Disorders; Perinatal; 18-25s Transitions Team; Early Intervention in Psychosis; Clinical Health Psychology.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist psychological care to clients with complex mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours.

• To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
• To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
• To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
• Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists
• Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development
• Provide leadership in service audit and development
• Provide leadership in service evaluation and research
• Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change